The Collection of The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza represents the largest single source of news footage, eyewitness films, photographs, and printed documentation related to the assassination of President John F. Kennedy outside the major broadcast networks and the National Archives. Totaling approximately 35,000 objects, the Collection serves as a resource for research and education.
This diverse collection ranges from three-dimensional artifacts, manuscripts, photographic materials, historic film and video, works of art on paper, newspapers, magazines, feature and documentary productions, to significant recorded interviews in the Oral History Collection.
The primary goals of the Museum's collecting activities are to preserve the materials entrusted to the Museum, to interpret them, and to make them available as a resource to the public through use in exhibition, public programming, and research. Many of these materials might be neglected and lost to posterity save for the Museum's preservation efforts.